This talk explores how new vector-based approaches to computational semantics both afford new methods to digital humanities research, and raise interesting questions for eighteenth-century literary studies in particular. New semantic models known as “word embedding models” have generated excitement recently in the natural language processing and machine learning communities, due to their abilit...

THE MEDICAL WORLD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Lester S. King. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1958. 346 pp. $5.75. This book by Dr. King is a collection of essays which is concerned with the complexities and variables which influenced the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, and the efforts of this discipline to progress as an art and a science. The rise of modern patholo...

BENJAMIN GOOCH, a Norfolk surgeon of the eighteenth century,1 earned a place for his name in surgical history as the innovator of Gooch's splint2 but this was not his only claim to distinction. He was the leading East Anglian surgeon of his day and an outstanding provincial surgeon of the eighteenth century. In 1758 he published the first of three editions of a textbook of surgery and he played...

In a reading of William Blake's frontispiece to “There is no Natural Religion” that draws largely on the history of the allegorical mode, I offer a narrative that explores the creative ways in which Blake illuminated his ideas about the value of Enlightenment thought.

In this exhaustive exploration of several genres of fiction, Ruth Perry argues that a seismic change in the basis of kinship occurred in eighteenth-century England, from a primary kin group rooted in “consanguineal” ties to one rooted in “conjugal” ties. In other words: “the biologically given family into which one was born was gradually becoming secondary to the chosen family constructed by ma...

The advertisements for patent and proprietary medicines in a sample of Bath newspapers, from 1744 to the end of the century,' have been examined to try to assess the importance of the medicines marketed in this way. A previous report, which described the sample in more detail, emphasized how deeply the proprietors of newspapers, circulating libraries and bookshops were involved as retailers of ...

It is widely acknowledged that emotion is deeply embedded in literary criticism. Even when we aspire to scientific analysis and objectivity, we assume that we share a love of literature. Loving Literature is a deep and fascinating exploration of this important assumption. Literary critics and professors of literature are expected not only to know but also to love their work. In the case of prof...

the organization of nursing in different types of hospital is studied. Margaret Connor Versluysen points out that to study nursing history without the "amateur" medical work carried out by women is misleading. She discusses the response to and limitations of Ehrenreich and English's Witches, midwives and nurses, and stresses the importance of power differences between the sexes in analysing the...

file:///Users/cevans/Desktop/The%20Industrial%20Revolution%20of%20the%20Eighteenth%20Century.html[2/11/12 10:42:46 AM] The most far-reaching, influential transformation of human culture since the advent of agriculture eight or ten thousand years ago, was the industrial revolution of eighteenth century Europe. The consequences of this revolution would change irrevocably human labor, consumption,...

T He. social and economic impact of those recurrent human disasters of pre-industrial society ~ plague, famine and war ~ have received considerable attention in recent years. Animal diseases have had much less coverage since they were rarely systematically reported in the past. However, cattle plague, or distemper of the horned cattle as it was commonly known, was the subject of considerable go...